Floor outlet fixture housing



Feb. 4, 1936.' E. B. sARGENT FLOOR OUTLET FIXTURE HOUSING Filed March18, 1932 IN VEN TOR. QAM/,j

muni-lm ,gk/4J Patented Feb. 4, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FLOOROUTLET FIXTURE HOUSING Application March 18, 1932, Serial No. 599,679

2 Claims.

This invention relates to electrical floor outlet fixtures, and inparticular to improvements 1n the construction of a floor outlet fixturehousing and to means for securing the fixture to a floor conduit.

One object of this invention is to provide an electrical fioor outletfixture housing having a relatively large cavity therein whereby aworking splice chamber is obtained.

Another object is to provide a floor outlet fixture capable of housingoutlet plugs and the like for conductors having different currentcapacities.

A further object of this invention is to provide new and novel means forsecuring an outlet fixture housing to a iioor conduit. y

A still further object is to provide an outlet fixture housing which iseasily installed, relatively cheap to manufacture, and attractive inappearance.

These and other objects of this invention which will be made readilyapparent to those skilled in this particular art are accomplished bymeans of this invention, one embodiment of which is described in thefollowing specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,wherein:

Fig. 1 is a view in vertical section of a floor outlet housing embodyingmy invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the housing disclosed in Fig. 1 having thetop cover removed for convenience of illustration, and

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the standpipe used with this modification.

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have illustrated a floor outlet housing 30 embodyingmy invention. This housing 30 has a hollow b ody portion-3| which terminates at the bottom in an outwardly flared portion 32 forming a basefor the housing. The body 3l of the housing. is substantially square insection and forms a relatively large splicing chamber 33 therein whichis closed at the bottom by a plate member 34 having an aperture 35therein through which access is had to the splicing cham'- ber.

Two of the faces of the body 3| on opposite sides thereof are concavedas at 36 for receiving an outlet fixture 3l which is held in place inthe concavities by a removable semi-circular cap 33 fastened to the body3| in any suitable manner such as with set screws 39.

In mounting the floor outlet housing 30, the finish floor above aconduit 40 through which conductors carrying the desired type of serviceis cut away and an opening 4l is drilled into the top of the conduit ofsuitable size to receive a standpipe 42. 'I'he end of the standpipe isthreaded as at 43 and is secured in the opening 4I which has itsperiphery on opposite sides bent upwardly and downwardly to receive thethreaded end of the standpipe 42. After the standpipe 42 is in position,the finish floor around the pipe is replaced and the housing 30 is thensecured to the standpipe.

In order that the housing 30 may be readily secured to the standpipe 42,the top of the standpipe is flanged as at 44 so that it extendsunderneath the member 34 when the housing is positioned thereon. So thatthe outlet fixture carried in the housing will face in the properdirection, the flange has a series of threaded openings 45 (Fig. 3)therein which are so spaced that a por- 10 tion of them are alwaysaccessible for the reception of screws 46 through arcuateshaped slots 4lformed in the member 34, regardless of the position to which the housing39 is turned.

It is apparent that such construction permits l5 the housing to bereadily secured tothe standpipe regardless of its height by merely usingscrews of a length sufficient to extend between the meniber 34 and theflange 44.

Water or other moisture is prevented from seep- 20 ing into the conduit40 by a gasket 48 positioned around the standpipe 42 betweenkthe base 32of the housing and the finish floor.

From the foregoing description it is readily apparent that I haveprovided an electrical fioor outlet fixture housing having a relativelylarge hollow body portion forming a readily accessible splicingA chamberand making the housing capable of supporting outlet fixtures forconductors having a wide range of current capacity. 30

It is also readily apparent that my improved fixture housing may bereadily installed and attached to a floor conduit and that the largesplicing chamber in the body of thefixture makes it relatively easy toconnect an outlet fixture to the 3.3 conductors and also provides amplestorage space for the spliced connections.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. In an electrical floor outlet fixture housing, 4;) the combinationcomprising a hollow body portion having the lower end flared outwardlyto form a base for the housing and an apertured member within said bodyportion, a` standpipe having an outwardly extending flange adapted to bereceived 45 within the flare on said body portion beneath said aperturedmember, and means cooperating with said apertured member and said'flangefor securing said body to said standpipe.

2. In an electrical floor outlet fixture housing, 50 the combinationcomprising, a hollow body substantlally square in cross section having aflared out portion forming a. base, an apertured member within said bodyportion, a standpipe having a flanged end adapted to be positionedwithin said base, and means extending through slots in said aperturedmember into openings formed in said fiange for securing said body tosaid standplpe.

EDWARD B. SARGENT.

